Biosphere-atmosphere interactions over semi-arid regions : modeling the role of mineral aerosols and irrigation in the regional climate system by Marcella, Marc Pace

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Structural and bioinformatic analysis of ADP-ribosylation, transcription, and splicing by Henfrey, CA

Genetic morphometry in Nigerian and South African Kalahari Red goat breeds by Sanni Muyideen Timothy, Okpeku Moses, Onasanya Gbolabo Olaitan, Adeleke Matthew Adekunle, Wheto Mathew, Adenaike Adeyemi Sunday, Oluwatosin Bamidele Omonuwa, Adebambo Oluwafunmilayo Ayoka, Ikeobi Christian Obiora Ndubuisi

“…A total of 192 goats belonging to three Nigerian breeds (Red Sokoto (RS), Sahel (SH) and West African Dwarf (WAD)) and one South African Kalahari Red (KR) goat breed were analysed. …”
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Nutritional status, nutrient imbalances, food-related behaviors and dietary supplements use among patients with celiac disease on a gluten free diet in Lebanon: a national cross-se... by Maha Hoteit, Samer Hotayt, Bilal Hotayt, Mahmoud Hallal, Rami Matar, Marwa Hallal, Abbas Bahr, Romy Daccache, Shaza Assaf, Malek Michael Bouhairie, Zeinab Chamas

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Cholera public health surveillance in the Republic of Cameroon-opportunities and challenges by Moise Chi Ngwa, Song Liang, Leonard Mbam Mbam, Arabi Mouhaman, Andrew Teboh, Kaousseri Brekmo, Onana Mevoula, John Glenn Morris Jr

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An experimental evaluation of anticonvulsant activity of aqueous extract of Caralluma dalzielii N.E. Brown by Chinenye J. Ugwah-Oguejiofor, Medinat B. Amuda, Kabiru Abubakar, Oguejiofor M. Ugwah, Martha N. Ofokansi, Halilu E. Mshelia

“…It is a succulent perennial plant widely distributed across the Sahel region from Senegal to Northwest Nigeria. Extracts from Caralluma dalzielii are used traditionally in the treatment of pain, infertility, epilepsy and other neurological diseases. …”
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Trends and patterns of modern contraceptive use and relationships with high-risk births and child mortality in Burkina Faso by Abdoulaye Maïga, Sennen Hounton, Agbessi Amouzou, Akanni Akinyemi, Solomon Shiferaw, Banza Baya, Dalomi Bahan, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Neff Walker, Howard Friedman

“…This association is stronger in the Sahel, Est, and Sud-Ouest regions. Even though all factors in high-risk births were associated with under-five mortality, it should be stressed that short birth spacing ranked as the highest risk in relation to mortality of children. …”
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Progress in Climate–Agricultural Vulnerability Assessment in Nigeria by Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke, Chukwuemeka Chinonso Emenekwe, Jane Onuabuchi Munonye, Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba, Uwazie Iyke Uwazie, Mark Umunna Amadi, Chibuzo Uzoma Izuogu, Chukwudi Loveday Njoku, Louis Uchenna Onyeneke

“…For precipitation, we found a non-significant correlation between precipitation in the Sahel, Sudan, and Guinea Savanna zones with time, while the other zones recorded positive but significant associations between precipitation and time. …”
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Risk Assessment of Tunisian Consumers and Farm Workers Exposed to Residues after Pesticide Application in Chili Peppers and Tomatoes by Khaoula Toumi, Laure Joly, Neji Tarchoun, Leila Souabni, Marwa Bouaziz, Christiane Vleminckx, Bruno Schiffers

“…A study has been carried out in the Sahel region of Tunisia to assess the risk for farm operators and workers exposed, by contact during harvest tasks, to possible pesticide residues remaining in tomato and chili pepper crops, and for the Tunisian consumers (adults and children) after intake. …”
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How does the explicit treatment of convection alter the precipitation–soil hydrology interaction in the mid-Holocene African humid period? by L. Jungandreas, L. Jungandreas, C. Hohenegger, M. Claussen, M. Claussen

“…We show that precipitation strongly increases in the storm-resolving simulations, especially in moisture-controlled regions, such as the northern Sahel and Sahara, and reaches equally high values as in parameterized convection simulations. …”
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AMMA-CATCH, a Critical Zone Observatory in West Africa Monitoring a Region in Transition by S. Galle, M. Grippa, C. Peugeot, I. Bouzou Moussa, B. Cappelaere, J. Demarty, E. Mougin, G. Panthou, P. Adjomayi, E.K. Agbossou, A. Ba, M. Boucher, J.-M. Cohard, M. Descloitres, L. Descroix, M. Diawara, M. Dossou, G. Favreau, F. Gangneron, M. Gosset, B. Hector, P. Hiernaux, B.-A. Issoufou, L. Kergoat, E. Lawin, T. Lebel, A. Legchenko, M. Malam Abdou, O. Malam-Issa, O. Mamadou, Y. Nazoumou, T. Pellarin, G. Quantin, B. Sambou, J. Seghieri, L. Séguis, J.-P. Vandervaere, T. Vischel, J.-M. Vouillamoz, A. Zannou, S. Afouda, A. Alhassane, M. Arjounin, H. Barral, R. Biron, F. Cazenave, V. Chaffard, J.-P. Chazarin, H. Guyard, A. Koné, I. Mainassara, A. Mamane, M. Oi, T. Ouani, N. Soumaguel, M. Wubda, E.E. Ago, I.C. Alle, A. Allies, F. Arpin-Pont, B. Awessou, C. Cassé, G. Charvet, C. Dardel, A. Depeyre, F.B. Diallo, T. Do, C. Fatras, F. Frappart, L. Gal, T. Gascon, F. Gibon, I. Guiro, A. Ingatan, J. Kempf, D.O.V. Kotchoni, F.M.A. Lawson, C. Leauthaud, S. Louvet, E. Mason, C.C. Nguyen, B. Perrimond, C. Pierre, A. Richard, E. Robert, C. Román-Cascón, C. Velluet, C. Wilcox

“…Simultaneous monitoring of the vegetation cover and of various components of the water balance at these four sites has provided new insights into the seemingly paradoxical eco-hydrological changes observed in the Sahel during the last decades: groundwater recharge and/or runoff intensification despite rainfall deficit and subsequent re-greening with still increasing runoff. …”
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Assessing factors impacting the spatial discrepancy of remote sensing based cropland products: A case study in Africa by Mohsen Nabil, Miao Zhang, José Bofana, Bingfang Wu, Alfred Stein, Taifeng Dong, Hongwei Zeng, Jiali Shang

“…In particular, large disagreements are seen on datasets covering Sahel zone and along the West African coasts. This study has identified land-cover richness as the driving factor with the largest contribution to the spatial disagreement among cropland products over Africa, followed by the high frequency of cloud cover, small and fragmented field size, and elevation complexity. …”
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Consensus on the management of platinum-sensitive high-grade serous epithelial ovarian cancer in Lebanon by Reem Abdallah, David Atallah, Nizar Bitar, Georges Chahine, Hady Ghanem, Marwan Ghosn, Joseph Kattan, Fadi Nasr, Joseph Makdessi, Ali Shamseddine

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RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions by Dauby Gilles, Rainer Zaiss, Anne Blach-Overgaard, Luís Catarino, Theo Damen, Vincent Deblauwe, Steven Dessein, John Dransfield, Vincent Droissart, Maria Cristina Duarte, Henry Engledow, Geoffrey Fadeur, Rui Figueira, Roy E. Gereau, Olivier J. Hardy, David J. Harris, Janneke de Heij, Steven Janssens, Yannick Klomberg, Alexandra C. Ley, Barbara A. MacKinder, Pierre Meerts, Jeike L. van de Poel, Bonaventure Sonké, Marc S. M. Sosef, Tariq Stévart, Piet Stoffelen, Jens-Christian Svenning, Pierre Sepulchre, Xander van der Burgt, Jan J. Wieringa, Thomas L. P. Couvreur

“…The geographic focus of the database is the region south of the Sahel and north of Southern Africa, and the majority of data originate from tropical forest regions. …”
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Influence of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Intake on Sarcopenic Obesity, Visceral Obesity, and Sarcopenia in Lebanese Patients with MASLD: A Case-Control Study by Maha Hoteit, Myriam Dagher, Nikolaos Tzenios, Najat Al Kaaki, Ghadir Rkein, Abdul Rahman Chahine, Yonna Sacre, Samer Hotayt, Rami Matar, Mahmoud Hallal, Micheal Maitar, Bilal Hotayt

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Etude du potentiel biogaz des déjections animales: bouses de bovins et fientes de volailles d’un centre zootechnique à Maroua - Cameroun by A. Aboubakar, Z. Boli, C.M.F. Mbofung

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Spatio-temporal dynamics of suspended particulate matter in the middle Niger River using in-situ and satellite radiometric measurements by Moussa Boubacar Moussa, Amadou Abdourhamane Touré, Laurent Kergoat, Bruno Lartiges, Emma Rochelle-Newall, Elodie Robert, Marielle Gosset, Bachir Alkali Tanimoun, Manuela Grippa

“…Study Region: Middle Niger River Basin (MNRB), Ansongo to Niamey, Sahel, West Africa.Study Focus: Although MNRB hydrology and the red flood phenomena have been addressed in the past literature, water quality parameters and suspended particulate matter (SPM) dynamics remain poorly known. …”
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Projecting armed conflict risk in Africa towards 2050 along the SSP-RCP scenarios: a machine learning approach by Jannis M Hoch, Sophie P de Bruin, Halvard Buhaug, Nina Von Uexkull, Rens van Beek, Niko Wanders

“…Overall, their importance is limited compared to main conflict predictors but results suggest that changing climatic conditions may both increase and decrease conflict risk, depending on the location: in Northern Africa and large parts of Eastern Africa climate change increases projected conflict risk whereas for areas in the West and northern part of the Sahel shifting climatic conditions may reduce conflict risk. …”
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2La Paracentric Chromosomal Inversion and Overexpressed Metabolic Genes Enhance Thermotolerance and Pyrethroid Resistance in the Major Malaria Vector <em>Anopheles gambiae</em> by Sulaiman S. Ibrahim, Muhammad M. Mukhtar, Abdullahi Muhammad, Charles S. Wondji

“…This study investigated the impact of thermotolerance on pyrethroid resistance in four populations of the malaria vector <i>An. gambiae s.l.,</i> from the savanna/sub-Sahel of northern Nigeria. <i>Anopheles coluzzii</i> and <i>An. gambiae s.s.…”
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Low-cost adaptation options to support green growth in agriculture, water resources, and coastal zones by Seyni Salack, Safiétou Sanfo, Moussa Sidibe, Elidaa K. Daku, Ibrahima Camara, Mame Diarra Bousso Dieng, Koufanou Hien, Bio Mohamadou Torou, Kehinde O. Ogunjobi, Sheick Ahmed Khalil S. B. Sangare, Konan Raoul Kouame, Yao Bernard Koffi, Stefan Liersch, Moumini Savadogo, Alessandra Giannini

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